LGBTQ+ Rights and America

This is really good news. Honestly this was my only hesitation about medically altering children before 18: that they could have negative health effects. Of course that has to be balanced with the mental and emotional effects and that's worthconsidering. But as a parent, you just have to be careful and weight everything before picking the best option on behalf of your kid.

So this is very reassuring that you can give your child the time they need to confirm this is the decision for them and to what degree they wish to change it without causing them any adverse conditions.

"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - Aszur

It seems like long term it results in better adjusted adults. Good to hear it works.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Heck, it seems that early puberty in general has been causing problems for kids for quite a while, and it's been something of a medical conundrum.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

It might be a good thing to use this to slow the puberty of kids who have issues with early puberty to give them a better outcome.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Yeah. I mean, my main concern is that running extended experiments on minors is generally not cool, but there's not always any way around it when you're looking at something that happens in puberty, and it sounds like they're going through as much informed consent and selection as can be hoped for.

Yeah. Unfortunately, there are diseases that only affect children, and issues with puberty all result in us experimenting on children because the alternative is pretty horrible. That and not knowing the right dosing for children leads to all sorts of messes.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

A Christian gay couple has had their children rejected from a private Nashville non-denomination school.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

On the one hand, it's a private religious school and they can reject whoever they want.

On the other, they're advertising themselves as non-denominational but applying denominational doctrine.

in some christian circles, i've seen "non-denominational" mean "we don't follow any of the man-made churches, we only worship the trinity," in fact a code for a very specific denomination.

It's tricky, because it can mean multiple things.

OK state lawmaker Sally Kern triples down on LGBT hatred, submitting bills to 1) strip salary from any state clerk who files a gay marriage license; 2) allow parents to force their children into conversion "therapy"; and 3) legalize religious discrimination against LGBT people.

edited 23rd Jan '15 3:58:58 PM by BlueNinja0

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw

Why is this heterofascist not on some kind of terrorist watchlist?

edited 23rd Jan '15 4:24:55 PM by Morgikit

Is there any particular reason you feel the need to use the phrase "hetrofacist" over just "facist"?

Though I do agree with your point, such a horrible women deserves to be kept far away from any and all power imaginable.

Fixed my pronone.

edited 23rd Jan '15 6:20:30 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

She's a woman, and since she's also racist and misogynistic heterofacist is probably a bit too narrow. She seems to be an all purpose bigot.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Pronone fixed. Facist probably works all by itself, that tends to cover everything doesn't it?

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

By that logic, white supremacists should just be called supremacists.

Another OK article

I giggle every time "shove it down our throats" is mentioned in conjunction with gay rights stuff.

edited 23rd Jan '15 6:32:52 PM by majoraoftime

....Sally Kern can go sit on it and give it a good twist. I'm just glad that nothing she's proposing can ever get past the courts to to how blatantly discriminatory it is

The proposed bills are really just designed to bait the courts, though. The one law 1599 seems to say that courts are not allowed to accept challenges to this law. So i guess judicial review now is a liberal conspiracy?

A federal judge just ruled against Alabama's SSM ban. Without imposing a stay.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/01/23/3615155/federal-judge-rules-alabamas-ban-sex-marriage/

edited 23rd Jan '15 7:42:19 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Now? Reactionaries have been complaining about "Judicial Activism" for years, and they almost always mean, "Waaah, the courts say I'm not allowed to be an asshole to (gays/minorities/muslims/whoever)! Waaah!"

edited 23rd Jan '15 7:43:09 PM by BlueNinja0

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw

I read this article about Kern apologizing for misogyny and racism (though not homophobia), and I wonder...

Do politicians apologize because they decide that they were wrong, because they see that they've hurt people, or is it mainly just to repolish their reputation?

I imagine like everybody else, it's a combination of the three. You have to look at their actions after the apology and see if there's really a change.

Welp

edited 23rd Jan '15 8:17:01 PM by tryrar

Given how often a politician gets caught doing whatever they apologized for, it's most often the latter. I won't say none of a politician's apologies are genuine, but ... most of them aren't.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw

Alabama puts a 2 week stay on same-sex marriages.

If I had access to a You Tube video, I'd probably put "F*** You" by C. Lo Green. So it's probably best I don't have access right now.